The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-05

no. half try. Be that as 1t may, there IS
fun aheai and heap of it, and the funnlest
kind Of fun at that
Sheriff Tinsley, of Columbus, went out to
the plantation Of George Mcdaniel, Thurs
day, 10 arrest Joe Padgct on the charge of
assault and battery, and when near the
house saw smoke and flame issuing from It,
Hurrying on, he arrived Just IN time to save
the building Padget's family and por-
ton Of his household goods were in the house
at the time but being angered at Mcdaniel,
who owned the house, he set about to dellb-
erately destroy it. The first effort failed by
his wife putting out the fire, when he forced
her to stand aside. and placing klndllng III
a corner poured on it glowing embeTs,
| which speedily caught, and i'll few min
utes more the house would have been in
flames. Padget is in Jail.
The vote on for the sa g" and against
the salen of Intoxicating liquors in Italia
ferro county. on Monday last, resulted III
majority of los in favor of the Ants. Be
fore the result was declared by the Ordinary
on last Tuesday, however the Prohibi-
| tlonists, through their attorney, Horace NJ.
Holden, filed petition with the Ordinary
! 70 contest the election. The investigation of
the matter was deferred by the Ordinary to
last Thursday, when, after a lengthy dis
cuSsion as to the groueds of contest the
Ordinary appointed next wednesday at 10
! o'clock as the day to enter into the in
vest CATION of the illegal votes cast at the
election, which is one of the grounds of
contest
Two years ago-just a week after the
! election in Atanta-the barrooms in Mon
roe were voted out. Without any opposition
| Thursday the citizens of the town, by good
majority, elected a wet Council, and the bars
will be brought back. The reasons for this
change are two: The high ad valorem tax
necessary to run the town government,
which is being resisted, influenced many
| voters; but the most important reason for
the change in public sentiment was the fact
that the bars were established just beyond
the town limits, and were great source OF
annoyance to the citizens living near them,
and paid no taxes whatever to the town
government. High license and restriction
will be the purpose of the new Council.
Sam Noble, President of the Woodstock
Furnace Company, of Admission, Ala, has
been in Cedartown for the past few days
trying to make contracts to secure a supply
of iron ore from the CedartOwn belt. The
high rank and superior quality of iron made
by the Cherokee Iron Company from these
ores has attracted great deal of attention
from iron manufacturers Mr. Noble knows
as well as anyone what is requisite for iron
making and he fully appreciates the supe
riority of the ores from the Cedartown sec
ton. A company representing birmingham
capitalists have recently succeeded in OBJ
tanning a lease of some very valuable ore
banks and are engaged in shipping large
quantities of these ores to the Birmingham
furnaces Another furnace is needed in
Cedartown to utilize the ores at home.
Fort Gaines Star: In 1886 Fort Gaines
was little more than an Indian fort. Early
in the spring of that memorable year, while
hostile Indians thronged this section, and
before they were removed by Uncle Sam
across the river above us, a party of the
treacherous wretches stole up the then
densely wooded line of the Town branch
and passed on out to the Button settle
ment where they were met by soldiers and
thrashed back to their reservation. just
where the Eufaula road crosses the Town
branch a beautiful spring in those days
dubbed from the ground and people in the
vicinity did their washing there. On the
day referred to above lady was at the
spring washing, when the red miscreant
passed They brutally murdered her, and.
after removing her scalp, left her body lying
by the spring, her bleeding body plllowed
on the roots of stately beech. Time has
done its work. The Indians are gone, scenes
have changed and the towering beech has
long since gone to decay, and only its
worm eaten stump remains to mark the
spot where long years ago this sad tragedy
of death occurred. A friend pointed US to
Cuthbert Liberal: 1t appears from the
figures in the grand jury's report that the
per cent of increase in the value of property
given in for taxes by the
colored people of the coun-
ty in 1887 over that of 1886 is nearly four
teen times greater than that of the whites
The total amount of taxable property i'll
1887 is 81, 9S4, 359. Increase over 1886, $19,-
$50. The gain amounts here to about per
cent. The value of property as returned by
the colored people in the year 1887 is $74,-
S33. Increase over 1886, So
14l The gain in this
is nearly IA per cent. In other
words, where 81 has been added to the
wealth of the whites, about S14 have been
added TO that Of the colored people, accord
ing to the valuations as given under oath to
the Tax Receiver. Or 1t may be stated in
this way: Where the whites with 81 ,964,
700 have made S19650, the colored people
with only $50, 692 have made 50, AL This
calculation is made upon the presumption
that the property of the negroes, as returned
this year, was not included in the amount
of taxable property for 1887 as reported
by the grand jury. The figures,
however, as we find them III the
general presentments, show that the total
amount is 81 1884, 359. This fact very mate
rally changes the results and nearly doubles
the relative gains of the negroes. Out of
the total increase of $40, $50 the colored peo-
pie are entitled to credit for 50, l4l, which
reduces the rate of gains for the whites to a
fraction over half of per cent. The ratio
of increase, therefore, as between the two
rates is about to IS. If the rate of gains
among the whites had been equal to that
among the blacks the amount of increase
over 1886 would have been about $275, 900.